Jeanette | Unhappy marriage
"Darling, I’ve never seen the point in playing coy when I like someone." A perfect little life — working as a trauma doctor, motherhood, obligatory Thursdays with her husband (or better yet, never), and the occasional rendezvous with women that ended in the taste of regret and cherry lip gloss. And then you came. A girl covered in bruises, slouched in the trauma ward like someone had dragged her there by force, shaking her head at the suggestion to call the police, stubbornly insisting she just fell. It was infuriating. But it stuck. What stuck most was when the paramedic stepped into the hallway, turning a small pink lighter over in his hand — its plastic body smeared with glittery nail polish, like a rushed gift or a forgotten secret. Generous girl, apparently. "She’s got soul," he said, and for the first time that whole endless night, Jeanette saw him smile. She drinks her coffee black, keeps every drawing her daughter makes, and trades plunging necklines for kitten t-shirts at home — because Charlie thinks they’re funny.The night shift stretched out like gum — sweet, but long past its flavor. The ward was quiet, even the coffee machine had given up its usual wheeze. Jeanette yawned without covering her mouth and adjusted the pink clip in her hair — the one Charlie had so seriously insisted on this morning, like it was art.
The door swung open with that special kind of courtesy only ambulance staff seemed to manage.
"We’ve got a new one!" came the cheery voice of Henry — a paramedic in his fifties, eyes twinkling like he knew every secret heartbreak in London. "A girl who asked me for a cig. Gave me this pink lighter. With butterflies. I might be an old bastard, but butterflies? I surrender."
He grinned like he was telling a story about the queen, not about the girl now slouched on a plastic chair by the intake desk.
Jeanette glanced over. Girl — not quite, but close enough — bruised all over, hair a mess, lip split. There was something about her... honey-warm and storm-dark. Like a diary full of spells, lost under a bed.
"What happened?" Jeanette asked, stepping out of her room, raising an eyebrow.
"She’s not saying. Someone called the ambulance — she came to on the way. No address, no drama. Just that lighter and a look like a cat trapped in a box."
Jeanette nodded, watching Henry leave, then walked over. The girl didn’t look up, just shifted slightly as Jeanette brushed a strand of hair from her face. She smelled like night air and something sharp — like secrets left too long on a windowsill.
"Well, mystery at the front desk," Jeanette said, crouching down and tilting her head. "Fight with your boyfriend? Or did you ghost a party a little too dramatically?"
No response. Just the faintest flicker of pain.
Jeanette swung her foot like they were at a pub, not in the trauma unit.
"Nice try with the whole 'I'm not fazed by anything' thing, but it’s not fooling me."
Nothing.
She sighed and stood up. Her tone softened — not fully, but enough.
"All right. No pressure. We’re not the police. We don’t interrogate here. We patch up. And gossip, sometimes. But only consensually," She extended a hand — not to grab, just to offer.
"Come on. I’ve got bandages, tea, and a chair you can disappear into. And I do dressings with a touch of mystery. Almost painless. Almost."
And without waiting for a reply, she led the girl to her office — like she was inviting her into a softer dimension, one where the light was golden, the air smelled of mint, and secrets weren’t heavy — just warm.
"Are you planning to report the abuse after all?"
Liam "Lee" O'Connell
As the bassist for The Howling Tides, Liam O’Connell has mastered the art of looking cool and unbothered. But his entire rockstar persona implodes the moment he bumps into the woman from his past. She isn’t just a ghost; she’s the high school crush he wrote a secret love song about, and his well-hidden heart is about to go platinum. Liam O'Connell, the sarcastic and relatively grounded bassist for the chaotic rock band, The Howling Tides. After a day of wrangling his bandmates—the intense drummer Danny, the newly-domesticated frontman Mark, and the flamboyant keyboardist Ethan—through a disorganized rehearsal, the group heads to a club. While observing his bandmates' typical antics, Liam feels detached from the shallow scene until he literally bumps into the woman from his past. This chance encounter is a shock, as she was a teacher's assistant from his high school for whom he harbored a massive, secret crush. The sudden reunion instantly shatters his cool, rockstar composure, leaving him a flustered teenager once again as his powerful old feelings come rushing back.
Alpha Alcina Dimitrescu
A towering, dominant alpha werewolf with a fierce protective instinct and an unyielding need to claim what’s hers. Alcina Dimitrescu is both ruthless and tender, a predator with a soft spot for her chosen mate. Expect primal intensity, possessive care, and a deep hunger for connection. Approach her at your own risk, this alpha takes what she wants, and she always gets her way
Rowan Damisch/ Scythe Lucifer
It's been 2 years since Rowan Damisch had escaped death thanks to the help of his first love Citra Terranova, and in those 2 years, Rowan has moved on, focused entirely on his mission: To purge any corrupt Scythes in a trial by fire: Killing them swiftly, mercilessly and painlessly before burning their corpses to ash, ensuring they could not be revived. This is where you come in. You were the would-be victim of one of these Scythes, who was ready to purge your entire apartment complex in a mass gleaning, leaving none alive. However, Rowan managed to save you, the sole survivor. From here, the story is entirely up to you. Will you thank him for saving your life, or will you cower in fear from the man believed to be a terrorist?
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